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THE LEVEL OF rainfall in Dublin since yesterday has amounted to nearly as much as what is usually spread out across the entire month of July, figures from Met Éireann show.
Several counties in Leinster and Ulster have been under weather warnings this morning due to heavy rainfall, which has caused flooding and poor road conditions in some areas of the regions.
Dublin, Louth and Meath have experienced the heaviest of the rain, with intense downpours overnight and into the morning.
The three counties, along with Wicklow, have been under a Status Orange rainfall warning, which is “fairly rare” for eastern counties in the month of July.
Speaking to The Journal, meteorologist Brandon Creagh outlined that in a 24-hour period up to around 10am this morning, Dundalk in Louth experienced 60mm of rain, while Ardee, also in Louth, received 55mm.
“Meath was in the 50s as well with Navan at 54mm and Dunsany at 52mm, and Dublin also got into the 50s with 54mm in Phoenix Park and 52mm in Glasnevin,” he said.
Creagh said a Status Orange rainfall warning is “fairly rare for July for eastern counties”.
“We can get systems pushing to the west and northwest and southwest that can get those levels of rainfall fairly often, but it’s rare enough for Dublin and the east of the country to get those kind of high millimeters of rain,” he said.
“We do get heavy thunderstorms that are more likely in the summer, but these longer bands of rain don’t typically bring this much rainfall in the summer.”
The long-term (30-year) average rainfall total for July at the Phoenix Park weather station in Dublin is 60.1mm - but the conditions since yesterday have seen nearly as much rain as that monthly average fall in the area in just a 24-hour period.
In 2024 and 2022, the total rain recorded at Phoenix Park in July was 49.9mm and 38.1mm respectively. 2023 was an exceptional year with 149.1mm of rain in July.
Warning Updates
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) July 20, 2025
Status Orange Rain & thunderstorm warning for Dublin, Louth, Meath & Wicklow
Valid: 00:00 21/07/25 to 14:00 21/07/25
Status Yellow Rain warning for Kildare & Monaghan
Valid: 00:00 21/07/25 to 14:00 21/07/25
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The intense rainfall was caused by a low pressure system that has been influencing Ireland’s weather over the past few days.
“It started off to the south of the country yesterday and it pushed up its occluded front, which brought heavy rain and showers and thunderstorms yesterday as well,” Creagh said.
“The way the system tracked was towards the UK and that shifted it more north-easterly and pushed that heavy band of rain into those east and northeastern counties,” he said.
“The way that the system tracked towards the east and then pushed the front over the northeast caused the front to lie there fairly stationary for a while, and that’s why the rain was persistent and non-stop for those overnight hours into this morning,” he explained.
He added that worst of the incessant rain has now passed.
The unusual level of rainfall for July is consistent with changing weather patterns caused by climate change.
A warmer atmosphere is able to hold more moisture, making extreme precipitation events more likely and more intense.
For every one additional degree of warming, the atmosphere can hold around 7% more moisture.
“As a result, heavy rainfall events are expected to be more common,” Creagh said.
“While this is just a single event and it’s difficult to ascribe any one event as being a result of climate change, these events do become more likely as we head into a warming atmosphere.”
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Next week there will be a hose pipe ban
So Dundalk had more rain, but poor Dublin is the headline
@Aaron Farrelly:
Population of Dublin area 1.5m
Population of Dundalk area 50k
@P. J.: cool story bro. Article is about rain, not population
At least it was warm rain.
Savage racist attack in Kilnamanagh on Saturday. Someone will be killed unless ferral youth are managed better by gardai and judicial system.
@Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: Saw that, very sad, this was my childhood playground and had friends in that area about 30 years ago now. Thought all that stuff of gangs hanging around there were gone and it was a mature estate? Very upsetting stuff. I did witness something similar many years ago and me and another guy jumped out of a car to a bunch of teenagers kicking the crap out of one young lad. They all scarpered. Things haven’t changed much I see.
@Rafa C: you were lucky you were not beaten but well done on your bravery
@Lance Taylor: intervening is always a risk. I saved a guys life outside a night club, 5 guys kicking him in the head. I separated them. And moved them on. Not a bouncer, just a punter on my way home.
Such poor quality english phrasing and structure evident in this half baked headline is shocking and the use of that dreaded Americanism GOTTEN!!!
@Patrick Westman: Gotten is old English.. Maybe the Journal yearns after the Jacobites. Those heady days of unity before the orange chap (not Trump, the other one) ruined the party.
“Get”, and its obsolete form “Gotten” is a transitive verb. A city cannot ‘get’ rain. It can receive rain, funnily.
It’s global warming, and we’re all going to die, and it’s all our fault, and there will have to be more taxes. Plus my house will be given to 20 Somalis.
It’s only fair….
It was lovely listening to it bouncing of the window while I was tucked up nice and snug. Spare a thought for those much less fortunate.
@Tezmond McVicar: *off
Dublin Dublin something something Dublin and something something Dublin.
Gotten?
“Dublin has gotten…”. Dublin got! Sloppy English.
Lol
The power was out in my Mums house in Galway for a full month – in the depths of winter and not too many articles in the good old journal about that, great to see that some people are still more equal than others in this fine Republic of ours
@The Hard Road: the country is run by boggers in every department including the Taoiseach you numpty
Did it rain today?
Since when is “gotten” English?
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